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Google is developing software for the first phone capable oftranslating foreign languages almost instantly. By building onexisting technologies in voice recognition and automatic translation,Google hopes to have a basic system ready within a couple ofyears. If it works, it could eventually transform communicationamong speakers of the world's 6,000-plus languages. The company has already created an automatic system for translating text on computers,which is being honed by scanning millions of multilingual websites and documents. So far, itcovers 52 languages. Google also has a voice-recognition system that enables phone users toconduct web searches by speaking commands into their phones rather than typing them in. Now it is working on combining the two technologies to produce software capable of understandinga caller's voice and translating it into a synthetic equivalent in a foreign language. Like a professionalhuman interpreter, the phone would analyse "packages" of speech, listening to the speakeruntil it understands the full meaning of words and phrases, before attempting translation.